lechery

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The solution was Verdon herself: She transforms an out-of-step ode to lechery into a revisionist two-hander about the sexism of memory, history, and show business.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2019

He looks upon the Trojan War, and all the warriors who risk their lives in it, with a vision that strips all noble motives away and sees only lechery, roguery, and knavery.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 9, 2016

In Chinese, much like in English, “wolf” has several negative connotations, from gluttony to lechery.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2014

She has dressed up as the Countess, and what Figaro overhears nearby as Susanna's acquiescence to the Count's lechery is in reality a song for him, a hymn to love's simple joys.

From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2013

Thais is a symbol of lechery; Sinon of fraud; Judas of treason; Homer of lying fiction.

From Sonnets by Symonds, John Addington